How did the war between the Greeks and Trojans begin?

Answer 1

The Trojan war was the result of Helen. Helen was the wife of Menelaus, a Greek king. She left Menelaus and went to Troy with her lover Paris. Paris was a prince of Troy and a guest of Menelaus. The war between Greece and Troy broke out because Paris not only violated the sacred relationship of host and guest, but also fled with another man's wife.

Answer 2

The Greeks and Persians have always been at war. Their cultures are so different, that they grate on the other like rubbing sandpaper together. Both were immensly rich. Imagine 2 fruits with arms trying to pluck and eat the other, without getting plucked.

The Greeks began settling present day turkey in three main regions: Ionia, Doria, and Aeolia about 500 BC. The one of intrest is the one called Ionia(western coast of turkey). It had 2 main "states". Caria, which had three major cities. and Lydia, with seven major cities.

Basically, a dude of Lydia got greedy and conqured the rest of Lydia and then tried to conqure Caria.

At the same time Lydia and Media (Iraq area) were fighting. A prince of Media* wanted Caria to help them fight the Lydians. The Carians refused, hijinx ensue, so the prince of Media conqured them too.

The Persain train of thought was, (in a crude nutshell) "we hate Greeks, the ones in Ionia are difficult to rule. However, they have lots of riches. Lets take it from them!"

Persia begins the first invasion of Greece in 492 BC.

*(At the time, the Persian empire was a collection of many "districts", where the district rulers were usually princes or royal family members, generals, etc. But they were basically little kingdoms of their own because the Persian Empire was so huge, no one man could rule it all at once.)*

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Answer 3

There were Greek states which fought against Rome and Greek states which fought alongside Rome.

Mainland Greece was not a unified country. It was divided into various states,

such as the kingdom of Macedon, the kingdom of Epirus, two alliances between city-states, the Aetolian League (which was formed to counter Macedon's power) and the Achaean League (which was formed to counter Sparta's power) and other city-states, such as Athens and Sparta. The island of Rhodes was an important state and had territories on the nearby Turkish coast. There were other Greek states in the eastern Mediterranean, the kingdom of Pergamon in western Turkey, the Seleucid Empire, centred on Syria, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

During the Second Punic War the Romans fought the First Macedonian War (214 to 205 BC) against Macedon (the biggest and most powerful state in Greece) because their king, Philip V, allied with Hannibal who was invading Italy and because he wanted to take over Illyrian territories (in Albania) which were under Rome's sphere of influence. The Aetolian league and Pergamon allied with Rome and fought alongside her. Rome then got involved in more wars in Greece to fight with her allies during conflicts between Greek states.

A Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC) broke out because Macedon attacked areas in western Turkey, which threatened Pergamon and Rhodes. These two states asked Rome for help. Rome sent a fact finding mission to Greece. Athens declared war on Macedon and her territory was invaded. Rome demanded its evacuation and for Philip to leave all Greek cities alone. When Philip V refused, Rome declared war. Pergamon, Rhodes, the Aetolian league and Athens were Roman allies. Epirus, the Achaean league and Sparta kept out of the war.

In the 190s BC a stand-off developed between the two great powers of the Mediterranean, Rome and the Seleucid Empire. It was caused by the latter's expansion into western Turkey (they also attacked Greek cities in this area) and Thrace, (to the east of north-eastern Greece). A city in north-western Turkey asked Rome for help. The stand-off was a sort of cold war. Then the Aetolian League turned against Rome and called for all the Greek states to rebel against Roman oppression and for Antiochus II, the Seleucid king, to attack Greece. Antiochus landed in Greece, expecting many Greek states to ally with him. However, only the king of king Athamania joined the fighting with the Seleucids and the Aetolians. Boeotia and Epirus made an alliancebut did not join the war and remained neutral. Instead, the Achaean League and Macedon joined the fight on the side of Rome. In this war (the Roman-Syrian War, 192-188 BC) theGreek allies of the Romans were: the Achaean League, Macedon, Pergamon and Rhodes

The Third Macedonian War (171-168 BC) was caused by the policies of the new king of Macedon, Perseus. He increased the size of his army and made alliances with the kingdom of Epirus (on the coast next to Italy) some Illyrian tribes (in an area which was in Rome's sphere of influence) and Thracian tribes hostile to Rome's allies in that area. Pergamon accused Perseus of violating existing treaty. Rome declared war. Rome and Pergamon fought together in this war. When Rome won, she enslaved 300,000 Macedonians, destroyed some cities and villages and Macedon was split into four Republic which were client states of the Romans

The Fourth Macedonian War (150 to 148 BC) was caused by a revolt in Macedon. In 148 BC Rome annexed Macedon. In 146 BC the Achaean League rebelled and Rome annexed the whole of mainland Greece, which became the Roman provinces of Achaea and Epirus. Pergamon continued to be an ally of Rome until its last king, Attalus III, who died without male issue, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome in 133 BC.

Answer 4

According to Homer, the Trojan War began when Paris eloped with or abducted, depending on which version of the story one favors, Menelaus's' wife, Helen, who became known as Helen of Troy, even though she was Queen of Sparta. Earlier, Paris had judged which of the goddesses was "the fairest." He gave the golden apple to Aphrodite who promised him he most beautiful woman in the world as his bride.

The real, historical war probably erupted as a trade dispute between the Trojans one one side and the Achaea's, inheritors of the Minoan or Mycenaean culture, on the other.

Answer 5

Well its a long story but its because the Greeks got bored and felt like it!

Answer 6

helen left with paris

-NOVANET

Answer 7

because they wanted resources & land